About Us
Insight
Unlocking people’s potential and inspiring greater impact
Whether you want leadership and management solutions, better teams, more effective communications and presentations or a more substantial and sustained culture change, we devise solutions that produce results.
How we work
The Maynard Leigh Experience refers to the learning processes and exercises we use to enable people to improve their performance. Participants have the opportunity to rehearse new behaviours in a safe learning environment supported by expert coaching.
Think
Feel
Act
Perform
We have pioneered a powerful learning technology using theatre-based ideas that create highly engaging experiences, accelerating learning in an action-orientated, stimulating and enjoyable way. Producing behavioural change demands a creative approach that appeals to all aspects of a person’s ability to learn, grow and develop. We call it ‘whole-self learning’.
By developing people’s cognitive, emotional and behavioural skill, you can maximise each person’s effectiveness and improve organisational performance.
We are committed to ensuring that all our development events are relevant, practical and make a difference to the business.
And all our work is backed up by rigorous intellectual research and easy-to-use materials, including several publications. Please visit our publication page here.
- We only use the very best coaches from our own accredited community of consultants
- We apply ideas from the theatre combined with psychological insight, recognised organisational change frameworks and business know-how
- We get people up and doing, rather than being talked at
- We create an exciting, fast moving learning environment in which people experiment and grow
- We recognise that people have different learning styles
- We expect all learning to be closely linked with the business environment
Landmarks
& milestones
1989
Andrew Leigh & Michael Maynard launch a new learning & development consultancy with the mission to promote humanity, vitality and meaning in business.
1993
Publication of ACE Teams, the first of 12 books to be published over the next two decades.
1998
First Food For Thought lunch in Soho, where people leaders met to discuss key issues in talent development.
2002
Run our first Breakfast Seminar – “HR With Attitude” – in London’s West End.
2009
New Delhi office opens, and publication of our Talent Engagement research paper.
2010
First “Do It Now” cards released, with seven more decks developed over the next decade.
2016
Run our first Virtual Presentation course to complement our experiential in-person workshops.
